Hunting for methane with Katey Walter Anthony

University of Alaska Fairbanks Professor Katey Walter Anthony takes us onto a frozen lake in Fairbanks, AK to demonstrate why methane gas has "exploded" onto the climate change scene.

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Education

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• UAF
• University
• of
• Alaska
• Fairbanks
• methane
• gas
• climate
• change
• frozen
• lake
• bubbles
• explosion
• fire
• global
• warming
• greenhouse
• carbon
• dioxide

[MazeleyFanClub]

Couple of fuckwits arguing in the comments as always. Welcome to the internet, home of the lowest common denominator of intelligence.

[beyerballler54]

1:16 to see shit get lit on fire.

[grandoization]

this is stupid because all you have to do is put rotten food in a 2 liter bottle with a balloon on the lid and wait a month or so

[MrVillabolo]

@wtf0804: "Is this the result of fracking?”

Not at all. It's the result of what used to be frozen soil thawing out. Thousands of year’s worth of buried plant matter that never decomposed because it was frozen is now rotting. That rotting releases Methane which rises through the water clogged soil out into the air.

In this case it builds up underneath the frozen surface of the lake with nowhere to escape. So it builds up pressure until somebody pokes a hole and sets it on fire.

[wtf0804]

Is this the result of fracking?

[perfectbark]

good video .... I shall use it in my Climate Change class next semster .... Thanks!

[BACKWARDSgameREVIEWS]

@Dstrukt2k2 That would release all of the methane!!!!!! DON"T DO THAT!!

[Dstrukt2k2]

Solution - Drain all of the lakes.

[ajnode]

@MazeleyFanClub

Douchebag faggot doesn't even read the comments, just makes a generalized "I hate people that sound smarter than me" comment to appeal to the fucktard masses of idiotic readers spend half their day upthumbing comments about Justin Bieber.

[MousePADDING]

No more eyebrows for you.

[HipsterJoker]

Standing on a lake and piercing the surface with a crow bar? What could go wrong!